A celebration honoring Carl D. Meyer on the occasion of his 60th birthday will be held at the North Carolina State University in Raleigh, NC on Thursday, May 15, 2003.
Matrix Analysis and Applied Linear Algebra
May 15, 2003
N.C. State University
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On November 22, 2002, Carl Meyer turned 60. A
gathering of friends, former students, and collaborators will assemble on May
15, 2003 in Raleigh, NC to celebrate this important milestone in Carl's life. At
the meeting, there will be a few technical talks on topics close to Carl's
scientific interests.
Although there is no formal conference registration, the organizers would appreciate an RSVP by March 1, 2003. Before April 15, 2003, we also request your plans for the dinner celebration to be held that evening at the Velvet Cloak Inn. In your registration email to Amy Langville, include the number of dinner guests in your party as well as any special dietary requirements.
The Velvet Cloak Inn is within walking distance of the NCSU campus and Hillsborough Street restaurants. Conference attendees are encouraged to stay there. The Inn has agreed to give conference attendees the much discounted rate of $69 a night. Call 919-828-0333 for reservations and mention that you are with the "Matrix Analysis Meeting". The Velvet Cloak Inn will reserve a block of rooms for May 14th and May 15th for our conference until the end of April. Directions and further information about the Velvet Cloak Inn can be found at: https://www.velvetcloakinn.com/
The banquet to be held after the day's talks will also be at the Velvet Cloak Inn, with meals ranging from $30-40.
Those attendees who are flying should book a flight into RDU (Raleigh-Durham International airport). Directions from RDU airport to the NCSU campus can be found at: https://www.engr.ncsu.edu/maps/raleighmap.html. Those attendees who are driving to the conference can find directions at: https://www7.acs.ncsu.edu/uga/visiting.htm#get to.
Please direct all questions and comments to Amy Langville.
All talks will be held on the NCSU campus in Harrelson 314. Harrelson Hall is the round building across the brickyard from the 9-story D. H. Hill Library. North Campus Map
PROGRAM (tentative)
8:30-8:45 Opening Remarks
8:45-9:30 G. H. Golub, "Updating/downdating Page Rank algorithms"
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9:30-10:15 J. Barlow, "A faster backward stable bidiagonalization
procedure"
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10:15-10:45 Coffee break
10:45-11:30 I. C. F. Ipsen, "The idea behind Krylov methods"
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11:30-12:15 D. Pierce, "View of an industrial mathematician"
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12:15-2:00 Lunch
2:00-2:45 G. W. Stewart, "The truncation method for approximating
stationary probabilities"
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2:45-3:30 M. Neumann, "The many aspects of Carl Meyer's contribution
to group inverses"
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3:30-4:00 S. Kirkland,
"Digraph-based conditioning for Markov chains"
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4:00-4:15 H. Schneider, "Looking
for the essence of Carl Meyer's mathematics",
ILAS-sponsored speaker
4:15-4:45 Concluding remarks
5:45-8:30 Cash bar opens at 5:45,
Dinner at 6:30, Banquet speaker: Bob Plemmons
The abstracts for these talks can be found by clicking on the .ps or .pdf links above.
Banquet Presentation by Bob Plemmons (includes naked baby pictures and Carl, the musician, photos :-)), powerpoint Pictures from day's lectures and evening banquet graciously supplied by Nick Rose and Becky Meyer.
Michele Benzi | Steve Campbell |
www.mathcs.emory.edu/~benzi/ | www4.ncsu.edu/~slc/ |
Mathematics and Computer Science | Mathematics |
Emory University | North Carolina State University |
Atlanta, GA 30322 USA | Raleigh, NC 27695-8205 USA |
Phone: +1 (404) 727-3638 | Phone: +1 (919) 515-3300 |
Fax: +1 (404) 727-5611 | Fax: +1 (919) 515-3798 |
Email benzi@mathcs.emory.edu | Email: slc@math.ncsu.edu |
Amy Langville |
www4.ncsu.edu/~anlangvi/ |
Mathematics |
North Carolina State University |
Raleigh, NC 27695-8205 |
Phone: +1 (919) 513-4868 |
Fax: +1 (919) 515-3798 |
Email: anlangvi@unity.ncsu.edu |
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